Rihards Unplugged

It has been out for a week now, and I thought, well why not? And upgraded to the latest version. Visually, there really isn’t anything new. There’s a lot of changes on the backend though, and many of those changes will no doubt make many bloggers happy.

Native tagging support, plugin update notifications, extended WYSIWYG editor interface, improved JS and many more things. As always there’s quite a lot of bug fixes as well, which I always find strange. Developers keep on fixing hundreds of bugs, and I still haven’t run into any. But that’s a good thing anyway.

I also upgraded some of the plugins, and removed others, so hopefully the blog will be at least a little faster now. Tagging all the old posts might take some time though, as I’m still coming up with a list of tags that I’ll be using, and I’ve got quite a lot of posts to tag as well.

To get a better idea of what people like and don’t like, I have added a post rating system which lets everyone, anonymously rate a post. The ratings are your typical five star business, where five is the best, and one the worst. I’d like to add a sort of guide though, or more like a reference, so that I could maximize the rating results and draw better conclusions from them.

It’s actually just one thing. Please rate. That’s it, it doesn’t take any time, and doesn’t require you to do refresh the page or anything, just one click and you have rated the post. Rating posts will help me decide in what direction to take my blog, and to see what type of posts (lots of text, or lots of images, or a mix, or whatever) people enjoy reading most.

So go ahead and rate my posts, and don’t just go giving everything five stars, if a post deserves only one star (and I’d give quite a few that low of a score here) then please do put it down as one star. Thank you for your time.

This is mostly for the people out there who have a blog, or post news items on webpages. Or for people who are interested into getting started into doing some blogging of their own. Has quite a lot of interesting articles about various topics.

Topics such as “Can You Make a Living Blogging?” and “Five Steps to a Truly Unique Blog That Attracts Readers and Revenue”, lots and lots of info there really. So head over to Matt Huggin’s Blog for the full list, I know that I will, and it would seem that I have quite a lot of reading to do.

So with some luck, hopefully things will change for the better on this blog, not that I’m complaining or anything, but maybe I’ll come up with some good ideas.